Game
1 was dawn attack vs tk. He had l4 nehek, king with ward and gw, herald
bsb, 2x3 chariots, brick of skellies, 20ish archers, 2x5 horsemen, 3
snake riders, kittie, titan, casket and skullapult. Pretty standard
tks. I had my bsb, saurus, and dawnstone cowboy on the left, everything
in the centre. He had his chariots opposite them, and everything else
centre right

Nothing too exciting
early on, rus dodged flaming skulls until they were close enough to send
the scar vets elsewhere. Moved up a lil, big hill in the centre blocked
any charges for now.

At some point, it all
goes bananas. His snakes come up, he cascades his hierophant, and I
poison off the kitty with one round of shooting with two units. yikes!

Skelly block comes up
and I go in with tg and a couple cowboys and paste em. hiero goes through a cohort and winds up in the slann bunker. fortunately the temple guard finish off the skelly block in time and save the day

His chariots get a
skink unit and res out the other cowboy, catching him.

Laserdon holds
up the snakes in combat long enough for them
to crumble, but gets catapulted off last turn. Ends up a 16-4 my way. great local opponent, and a strong start for me lizo

Game 2 was against
skaven. One of the qld'ers and a very competent player, hes got a seer,
fellblade warlord, bsb, assassin with mr2, two engineers, 3 darts, 2
units of slaves, clanrat bunker, small unit of 11 plague
monks, 10 night runners, a tunnelling team, 2 doomwheels and 40
stormvermin. apologies for the bad angle on the photos. Battleline and I go first.

Move up a lil, keep the flanks
close as the doomwheels are on either end. Get off a fiery convo on the
stormies and kill a few when he uses scroll of sheilding
+ mr2

In his turn he if's d13th and kills 18/23 temple guard. Then he cascades down the hole and kills a bunch more stormies. Huzzah!

My turn i do a cheeky
terror bomb with the laserdon and the stormies flee. Re cast fiery con
on them, and pelt them with lasers and soulquenches till they all die in a few turns. i also tempest the centre bsb bunker

One cohort fights a doomwheel to death and
the other does a lot of misfires and rolls near the cammies with only a
wound left and I take that out also.

One slave unit panics off, I pick
up plagues, all the darts, halve the bunker, then unforge the fellblade
so he doesn’t get any ideas.

I cant remember what
stuff i lost, but its another 16-4 to me. another great opponent, with an admirable stiff upper lip

So, as soon as I saw this list, I knew what kind of game this was going to be. Put on your box, wadsworth, its dick punching time!

So the cammies go up
and trigger the fanatics. At some point I tempest the gobbos, then
convocate the rest.

Dawnstone cowboy gets shot out after a failed charge, saurus get footed
off the table along with bsb. Basiladon dies later on, I push
forward tg. Then he switches to the old blood and nearly kills him.
Blocks up the tg.

Old blood charges out into some waiting chariot, and
ahktar crows the trap is sprung! He sends his manglers who had been
backlining behind the savages through em, warmachines
and chariots to get my oldblood. First one does 5 wounds and I save em
all. 2nd one goes through and I die.

I pick up some pumpers along the
way and kill a mangler with shooting, on top of some chariots, chaff
characters, warmachines and gobbo horde for a 13-7
loss.

Some real corner hammer, but as he explained at the beginning of the game, it was some etc practice for him essentially. Ahktar is a great dude and I had an
enjoyable game, but I definitely felt like he was to blind me with his nipples. We solved everything amicably, and pulled some
surprises on one another, so I felt I did the best
I could in that match up

Day 2, Game 4 was against
darkies. Tough list, 2xl3's on dark, 2x10 cold ones, cauldron horde of
witches with hag, mounted bsb and another noble on steed, and two
driders of 5. my opponent was too hungover to make it apparently, so sent another guy in his stead, who was lovely, but quite new to
warhammer i think. Cammies went on cauldron duty, and old blood squared off
against a cold one unit

Old blood is off to the left, and went through
entire unit and sorc in about 5 rounds. Cauldron got chaffed and shot
and repeat. - Now we did play this wrong, we werent sure about whether I
could target the cauldron with javs so we
went to the to's who both agreed we could.

Later on I got someremarks from the armies actual owner which I politely
pointed out we did get a ruling from the to's. shoulda been there huh?

killed the
hag and cauldron, bad overrun, saurus in the flank and got the witches' pts with magic.

dawnstone cowboy went into other unit of cold ones but couldnt get em all in time. went
up 18-2, only had one cold one unit and a sorc left, lost very little, and another great opponent.

so this game was all about the laserdown ftw.
Omg! First shot, 10 s6 on wildriders, vapes em. I also tempest his big
unit of gladies who panic off the board. Arrange my skinks so the hawks
cant land behind, I know hes trying to pin
the slann bunker and trying to get other wildies round into em.

He moves about, keeps
trying to cast final trans and I keep stopping it. Eventually he
cascades and loses the l4 to something else. I shoot off all the hwaks,
and an iceshard on the last one kills it. I shoot
a few of the other wildies before they overrun off the board. Dragon
starts taking wounds.

His ambushers come on and charge the slanns unit
next turn. Dragon fails an 18" charge into em, phew.

Then, wildies come back
on and line up the flank. Laserdon turns around - 9s5 hits vapes em
too! I love you laserdon!!!!

I throw more poison at the dragon who flies
off on one wound left, and that’s pretty much
the game. Skink bunker fights off ambushers lol and it’s a 17-3 to me.

Rowan was a great dude, and had an excellent attitude when his dice went
south. more wicked opponents!

First few rounds a pretty cagey, but my 13
skirmies with a cohort in support shot and panic off all 3 units of guts on the
right flank. I move up and he moves back in the centre.

Eventually I get
around the flank and do 4/5 wounds to ironblaster
with shooting, and laser off the last wound, but then he cannons off the dawnstone cowboy and then the
oldblood.

there are some failed and fled charges, and it’s an 11-9 his
way. Failed a key stupidity roll on the oldblood that would have been an
easy charge and easily flipped that score,
but what can you do. prolly could have been more aggressive, but hindsight huh? simon goes onto to 3rd place, well done mate, hope to see you at your teams tourney in nsw

Day 3, Game 7 against lockies
de monster mash. Not a good match up at all, dlord on a dragon with mr2
and ward, master on peg with flaming ward, master on manti with flaming
ward, big drider unit, small cold one unit,
small xbow unit, med corsair unit, l2 on heavens and 2 rbts and a hydra.
So I cornered up.

I didn’t do a good job and got a bit tangled, leaving
my slann in a vunerable unit. definately the most regretful game of the weekend, could have easily sat the slann in a cohort right on the board edge surrounded by blocks, but i didnt.

After literally ten minutes of deciding
whether or not to fly off (and i dont mean this in a disrespectful way), he went for it
and smashed through a tonne of pts.

17-3 against, and this big win helped put him on 4th place overall. you're welcome locky

Last game was against
tk again, this one with 2xl4s, one on light, prince, big and med skellie
block, 3 chariots, 3 knights, necrosphinx, regular sphinx, colossus and
titan, 20 archers and 3 carrion.

I go first
and get a couple wound off the necro with cammies before they flee from
terror. Cohort get another couple wounds on it. Constructs move up, and I
park my oldblood in front. He goes for it, gets double attacks, speed
of light and tk soulblight on him…. No wounds.

I take a couple rounds to kill him, then turn around and kill the titan.

Kitty goes into saurus
and I grind it out with some jammy dice. Skelly block, chariots and
snakes go into tg with slann in there via a cohort. Slann is in there
after the necro flies around to threaten his bunker.
I poison it to death.

Carrion go in rear of tg combat and I hold, but
they are directing all attacks onto slann. Skinks go into rear of
carrions, and saurus with bsb in flank, and laserdon in the front. I drain magic all
the buffs off his snakes, then hand of glory the rus up to ws6. he
manages to get my slann - cant believe those carrion are s4! But one tg
survives, and I ruin all 3 of his units, winning the combat by like 17
and pop em all.

his hierophant bails out, oldblood goes into remains of skelly archers and once again the laser is worth its weight in gold, blasting off the heirophant. Ends up another 16-4 my way, and 8/8 games with great opponents. stoked! makes a long, tiring, beer filled weekend of man dollies even more enjoyable lol.

in the end, i have a respectable amount of points to my name, 102 to be exact. enough to put me on 10th equal and top lizo there. well stoked with that, much better than last years paltry 41st lol. i dont think comp played a huge part, at most i gave about 60 pts, and gained about 200, so no complaints about swedish this year. first place went to a kairos doc list, and 2nd to a bloodthirster doc. also well done to our lot, with a certain mr scherpenhuizen top of the shirts off mob in 6th place with his woodies, and 2nd best painted (with a nagash as the prize for 2nd best painted!!!!! which i promptly bought off him lol) and joel, nick, jib jib and mal all 80+ pts. good times all round, thanks to my opponents, the to's and all the dudes i met there. got a metal casket of souls from the 2nd hand stall for 40 bucks too, stoked! hopefully my lizos havent floated off into space by cancon next year, cos im looking forward to cancon 2016!so after 8 games of warhammer and a return car ride to canberra, mal crashes at mine and i have tues off work, so we decide to throw down, to see if the student can defeat the master.

and its a crushing defeat for me. back to waxing cars and training montages. ill get you next time patel!!

so thats it for now, back to painting and crunching lists. the usual really. next tourney is nztc 2015 in a month, so stay tuned for that, where we can hopefully wrangle the cup off those dastardly aussies and return it back to the motherland. until then, check out my woc contributing to the battle of heffengen despite me not being able to make it over on greg's blog http://hoodlinghole.blogspot.com.au/and until next time, take your shirt off!